Episode 331: The Wailing Wall

[00:00:11] Speaker A: The mysterious old radio listening Society. Live from the Bryant Lake bowl, good evening. Crepes. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Please welcome to the stage your mysterious. [00:00:27] Speaker C: Hosts, Eric, Tim, Joshua, Joshua, and special. [00:00:33] Speaker A: Ghoulish guest star Shannon Custer. [00:00:46] Speaker D: Welcome to the mysterious old Radio Listening Society, a podcast dedicated to suspense, crime and horror stories from the golden age of radio. I'm Eric. [00:00:54] Speaker C: I'm Tim. [00:00:55] Speaker A: I'm Joshua. [00:00:56] Speaker E: And I'm Shannon. We love mysterious old time radio stories, but do they stand the test of time? That's what we're here to find out. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Today we present an episode of my choosing the Wailing Wall from inner sanctum mystery, starring the big man himself, Boris Karloff. [00:01:16] Speaker D: Ooh. Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt, gained fame for his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 Universal studio film Frankenstein and its two sequels, Bride of Frankenstein and son of Frankenstein. His ability to both inspire terror and illicit sympathy made him unique within the burgeoning horror genre. In addition to Frankenstein, Karloff had memorable turns in other films of the era, including the Mummy, the Black Cat, and the Old Dark House. [00:01:46] Speaker F: Karloff's distinctive yet versatile voice made him a favorite guest star during radio's golden age, particularly during the thirties and forties when horror programs were at their zenith. Arch Obler, writer and director of Lights out, wrote several plays for Karloff, the most notorious of which was the masterfully unsubtle catwife. The only other program to feature Karloff as frequently as lights out was the series you are about to hear, inner sanctum mystery. [00:02:13] Speaker E: The program was created by Hyman Brown, one of the great storytellers of the golden age of Radio. Brown's career spanned eight decades and a diverse range of genres, from his adaptation of comic strip hero Dick Tracy to his 1970s revival of radio drama, the CB's Radio Mystery Theater. Despite his many contributions to the medium, Brown is best remembered for one series, Inner Sanctum Mystery. [00:02:41] Speaker A: The program ran on NBC from January 1941 to October 1952 and featured one of radio's most famous openings, an organ sting, followed by a rattling doorknob, then the agonizingly slow opening of the world's creakiest door. According to a 1973 interview in the Pittsburgh Post, Hyman Brown copyrighted the sound, bragging, I took that creek and made it a star. Several Picassos with that creak. [00:03:21] Speaker D: Inner Sanctum's other claim to fame was the host who lurked behind that creaking door, Raymond Edward Johnson, known simply as Raymond. His ghoulish jokes and horrendous puns were a technique borrowed from a genre of french theater known as Grand Guignol, which famously blended horror and comedy to create a hot and cold shower, a fact to shock the audience. After four years, his host, Raymond, left the program in 1945, replaced by Broadway actor Paul McGrath, known simply as Mister host. That same year, Lipton Tee became the sponsor of Inner Sanctum Mystery, and for a brief run of episodes, the show was co hosted by Mary the Lipton Tea Lady. Mary's bright and Chipper demeanor was a stark contrast to McGrath's morbid sense of humor, and the two quickly became one of radio's strangest comedy duos. [00:04:17] Speaker F: Inner sanctum Mystery borrowed its name from a line of mystery novels published by Simon and Schuster, but rarely used the novels as source material. Instead, the radio series developed its own style of over the top storytelling, fueled by improbable situations, shameless plot twists, and a liberal dose of dark humor. In a 208 article for Vox that's probably not right, film and television critic Charles Burmesco argues that inner sanctum still makes for great listening 75 years after its final broadcast. According to Bebresco, intersecting transports listeners to a horror paradigm governed by the notion that being scared should be kind of fun and kind of silly. [00:04:57] Speaker E: So with that in mind, we invite you to have some fun, laugh, maybe even cringe a little as you listen to the wailing wall from inner sanctum. First broadcast November 6, 1945. [00:05:10] Speaker A: It's late at night, and a chill has set in. You're alone, and the only light you see is coming from an antique radio. Listen to the sounds coming from the speaker. Listen to the music and listen to the voices. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Lipton tea and Lipton soup present Inner Sanctum mysteries starring Boris Karloff. Good evening, friends of the inner sanctum. This is your host to welcome you through the squeaking door into the land of ghosts, vampires, and other gay, hilarious people. Friends, are you looking for an apartment? Well, we have just the place for you. It's sturdily built, completely of marble, with cold running water every time it rains. You don't have to worry about the landlord putting you out. The lease is forever. All you have to do to get this little love nest is call your undertaker and get yourself a little bit dead. [00:06:40] Speaker G: Mister host, I assure you, no one is the least bit interested in your offer. [00:06:44] Speaker B: But, Mary, just think, once you're dead, you can appear on inner sanctum. You know, we always have a ghost in our story, someone whose voice comes back from the grave and gives advice to our characters. Sometimes I think our theme song should be my mummy. Done, Tolmy. [00:07:02] Speaker G: Why, that's very funny. But you know, mister host talking about voices coming back. That's what happened to me the other day. I heard my own voice coming back to me on the radio while I was eating breakfast. [00:07:14] Speaker C: No. [00:07:15] Speaker G: Yes. I just heard the new Lipton jingle. And then I heard myself. Yes, there I was talking about inner sanctum. And about Lipton t too. You see, it was a record. An electrical transcription that I had made. All about Lipton's brisk flavor. How Lipton's always tastes fresh and full bodied, never wishy washy. And you know what? There was a man on the record who talked almost like you, Mister Host. [00:07:39] Speaker B: An impostor. I'll kill him. [00:07:40] Speaker G: Oh, it was just in fun. He made spooky remarks when I talked about Lipton tea. But I did get a chance to say that Lipton's is the largest selling brand of tea in the whole world. [00:07:52] Speaker B: All right, Mary, you've had your chance. And I'll make room for the creepiest voice you ever heard. The curdling kid himself, the star of stage, screen and radio, Boris Kahlo. Tonight's story is called the Wailing War. It's an original radio play by Milton Lewis. And you'll hear Boris Kalif in the role of Gabriel Hornell. All set, friends? Then turn out the lights, curdle close to the fire and listen. Night and on the waterfront of downtown Manhattan, the fog creeps in like a crawling cloud. Tucked in between the towering skyscrapers, there's an old rundown mansion. An anachronism, a freak among the streamlined giants. It's the horn el home. And tonight, leaping tongues of flame from behind the black shutters. [00:08:48] Speaker C: Here's it, Johnny. Is there anybody in that old dump? They say an old guy lives here. Don't care. I hope he had sense enough to get out. That place is like a tinderbox and pretty well gone. Heresy. Get that horse. Hey, there is someone in there. Get the exit. Come on. They're right behind you. Watch. Get out of the way. [00:09:09] Speaker A: Hurry. [00:09:10] Speaker C: Will you knock it off? [00:09:13] Speaker G: Come on in. [00:09:14] Speaker C: Do you see anyone in there? No, we can't stay. Hey, there he is. Oh, that crazy cootie didn't even have sense enough to get out here. Grab your shoulder. Yeah, don't hold me. We're just taking you out. I don't want to go out. It ain't asking you what you want. Come on, Johnny, before this joint collapses. Take me out. I can't leave the house. [00:09:47] Speaker G: Good evening, Mister Harnell. I hope you're feeling. Mister Hornell. Mister Harnell. The head nurse, and Harry. Hello? Hello? This is Nurse Hopkins on the 18th floor. Gabriel Harnell is not in his room. The window is open from the bottom. There's a letter. I know, but I'm sure he's not alive. The letter. Yes. I'll read it to you. To whom it may concern. By the time you read this, I shall be dead. [00:10:23] Speaker C: There can be no mistake this time. Death holds no fear, no terror any greater than what I've endured in life. For the past 40 years, I've searched for freedom. I hope now I've found it. Even now, as I write, I can hear her voice calling to me as she did that night years ago. I'd prepared everything while she was in bed. Just the last few minute, little details had to be completed. [00:11:00] Speaker G: Gabriel. Gabriel, do you hear me? [00:11:04] Speaker C: What do you want? [00:11:05] Speaker G: What are you doing down there? [00:11:06] Speaker C: I'm. I'm fixing something. [00:11:08] Speaker G: Well, why don't you come up? I don't want to be alone here. I can't bear to be alone. Come up. Gabriel, what's the matter with you? Why don't you answer me? Oh, you're just doing it for spite. I know you are. Stop that hammering. Gabriel, you know I can't bear that noise. Now, stop it, please, Gabriel, will you stop that noise? [00:11:31] Speaker C: Oh, you came down. [00:11:34] Speaker G: Well, of course I came down. Did you expect me to lie there while all this racket was going on? Now, you know I'm a sick woman. Gabriel. What are you doing there, anyhow? [00:11:43] Speaker C: You can see? [00:11:44] Speaker G: Well, yes, I can see, but it doesn't make any sense to me. Oh, you've made a huge, gaping hole in the wall. Now, what on earth did you want to do a thing like that for? [00:11:53] Speaker C: You'll find out soon enough. [00:11:54] Speaker G: And what are all those things? [00:11:56] Speaker C: Stonemason's tools, cement, plaster. [00:12:00] Speaker G: I never dreamed you knew how to use them. Oh, I'm going back to bed. [00:12:04] Speaker C: No, Agnes. [00:12:06] Speaker G: No. [00:12:06] Speaker C: No, Gabriel. [00:12:10] Speaker G: That rope in your hands. [00:12:11] Speaker C: Yes, I've thought carefully about this rope, Agnes. It's the most merciful way. It leaves a little trace since there's no blood. Gabriel, you won't make it difficult, will you? Agnes? [00:12:25] Speaker G: Murder. [00:12:26] Speaker C: It's the only way. [00:12:28] Speaker G: No, Gabriel. [00:12:29] Speaker C: We couldn't go on like this. Your imaginary illnesses, your constant nagging. I have to be free of them, Agnes. [00:12:37] Speaker G: Murder. [00:12:38] Speaker C: This is best for both of us. [00:12:40] Speaker G: No, Gabriel. Send me away. Do anything you want. You can get a divorce. A divorce? There, see, that would solve everything. You could have your freedom. [00:12:47] Speaker C: Stand there, actor, just as you are. [00:12:50] Speaker G: I know that other woman, Dorothy Carter. That actress. That's why you're doing this. Oh, you thought I didn't know about that, Gabriel? Well, I do. Yes, I do. No. No. Let go of me again. That rope helps somebody. [00:13:04] Speaker C: It will be done in a minute. [00:13:07] Speaker G: Done. No. You'll never be free of me as long as you live. No. [00:13:22] Speaker C: The cat saw everything with its yellow eyes. The cat saw me take her body to the tomb I'd made in the wall. The cat saw me place her there and carefully seal it up. I worked quickly, skillfully, with infinite care. First the bricks, one on top of the other. Then the plaster, then the wallpaper to match the rest of the room. That wasn't very difficult. In a short time, it was done. I was free. All I had to do now was to go to the police and report her missing. It was even simpler than I thought. I put on the coat. I was about to open the front door when I heard it for the first time. I thought it must be my imagination. I listened carefully. I rushed to the wall, put my ear to it. What I heard made icy perspiration ooze out of every pore of my body. The wail was coming from the wall. It was like the insane shriek of some creature of another world. Was she alive in there? [00:14:31] Speaker G: She couldn't be. [00:14:32] Speaker C: She was dead. I knew she was dead. Yet I heard her voice wailing. I could swear it was her voice. I couldn't go out as I'd planned. What if someone else should hear it? Would they go to the wall, investigate the doorbell? Oh, it couldn't be. At this hour. It couldn't be. But it was. Who? Oh, I had to risk everything and answer it. I'm sorry to disturb you, Mister Horner. It was patrolman Cleary. He was the officer. And the beat, he was blue with cold. I was passing by and I saw the lights on. I peeked in the window. You. You looked in? Yes. Since you were still up, I thought I'd ring. It's pretty cold out tonight, and I'd like to warm these old bones for a minute. Oh, yes, yes, of course. Clearly. Don't stand there in the door, man. Come in, come in. Thank you. I see you got your coat on, mister. Honey, you just got in. Only a few moments ago. As a matter of fact, I was going to see you. See me? Why, yes. It's about my wife. Something wrong? I hope not. I was out all evening. When I got home, she was gone. That's not like her, Mister Hornel. No, it. It isn't was she alone all evening? Yes. At least I think she was. You know, she hasn't been feeling very well lately and I. Why, I hate to think it possible, but. But she may have destroyed herself, misses Ornaire. No, she wasn't the sort. Oh, she was ill. Terribly ill. I tried to keep it secret until she recovered, but the doctors knew. Insane? Yes. Don't you see the river? I'd rather get back to the precinct and report this. You'd better come with me. Missing Persons Bureau. Will. Mister Arnell? Yes? You must be mistaken. Isn't that her? That isn't a woman. Of course it is. It's coming from that room there. Sure it's your wife. I know her voice and she sounds. [00:16:52] Speaker G: Like she's in pain. [00:16:53] Speaker C: It can't be. There's no one in that room. She must have come in the back way. Come, I'll show you. No, don't go in. What? Nothing. [00:17:02] Speaker G: There. [00:17:03] Speaker C: You can see for yourself. There's no one here. No one could have sworn your wife was in this room. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Well, how'd you like to live in a house with wailing walls? Well, one thing you have to admit. Things aren't so very dead in the Hornell mansion. Or are they? [00:17:32] Speaker G: Well, all I can say is I'm glad I don't have to live in that house with that awful wailing. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Why, Mary, there's a wailing, whistling kind of noise in your house, too. The first time I heard it, I was so sorry. I shivered in my shroud. [00:17:46] Speaker G: Oh, you're talking about my whistling tea kettle. Oh, goodness. There's nothing scary about that. Now, if you'd only try Lipton tea, with its wonderful brisk flavor, that whistle would sound as cheery to you as birds whistling in the morning. Especially on these chilly mornings when a cup of Lipton's just makes you feel like the sun was shining inside of you. And folks, if you want a sunny disposition, you should try relaxing with a cup of Lipton tea after a hard job like, whoa, maybe washing out your window curtains. Yes, and what's more, you can help your friends feel right with the world, too, by serving them Lipton tea when they come to visit you. Lipton's always taste so tangy and heartwarming, never flat or wishy washy. Yes, that brisk flavor makes all the difference in the world. [00:18:33] Speaker B: All right, friends, we've given you a chance to warm your blood, and now we fondly hope to turn it to ice again with the help of our star, Boris Karloff. Oh, let's hear the second act of inner sanctum. We continue with the strange letter left by Gabriel Hornell. [00:18:50] Speaker C: Cleary watched in silent fascination as the cat screamed and leaped against the wall. Would he notice the new wallpaper in the dim light? Suddenly the policeman turned to me. Yes, I. I guess that noise is only the wind. Strange how like a wailing woman. It can sound, isn't it? Yes. Well, I'll be leaving now. I guess it'll be all right for you to stay here. I'll make a report at headquarters about your wife. It's very good of you. Clearly. If she turns up, you let us know. Yes, I. I'll let you know. Good night, mister Honey. Good night. He left. I locked and came back to the room. The room where my wife was entombed. Was she still alive inside the hollow of that wall? I listened all that night. The wailing rose to a high, insane shriek. And then towards morning, it began to grow weaker, as though she were losing strength. It seemed to die. The cat crept away. There was a merciful sound. Silence in the house. She was dead. She had to be by now. I sank down onto the sofa into a feverish sleep. Somewhere a bell was tolling, calling the mourners to the grave. Suddenly, I sat bolt upright, shaking, trembling. I'd been dreaming. The front doorbell was ringing. It was night again. How long had I slept? The house was silent. There was nothing to fear now. I ran to the door, opened it. [00:20:44] Speaker G: Hiya, kiddo. [00:20:46] Speaker C: Dorothy. [00:20:47] Speaker G: Well, are you gonna keep me out here in the cold? [00:20:50] Speaker C: No, no. Come in. Come in. I haven't been. Haven't been feeling well. [00:20:56] Speaker G: Dorothy, is that why you forgot our date tonight? [00:21:00] Speaker C: I must have overslept. What time is it? [00:21:03] Speaker G: 10:00 ten. [00:21:05] Speaker C: I must have slept clear through the day. [00:21:10] Speaker G: Well, aren't you glad to see me? [00:21:13] Speaker C: Glad? Why, yes, it's. It's a delightful surprise. [00:21:18] Speaker G: That's more like you. Come here, kiddo. You've got the blues, but Dorothy will wipe them away. Give us a kiss. What? What's that? [00:21:31] Speaker C: Just the wind. [00:21:34] Speaker G: Oh, no. It can't be the wind. [00:21:35] Speaker C: This is a very old house, Dorothy. You sometimes hear strange noises. [00:21:41] Speaker G: I've never heard anything like that before. Sounds human. [00:21:48] Speaker C: Was she still alive even after 24 hours? Suddenly, I realized that the doorbell was ringing again. There was a large pair of wooden sliding panel doors between the room that we were in and the vestibule that led to the street. I wasn't going to take any more chances. [00:22:08] Speaker G: Someone at the door. Gabe? [00:22:10] Speaker C: Yes? You wait here. [00:22:11] Speaker G: Dorothy, what are you doing? [00:22:13] Speaker C: Closing these doors. Why, I'd advise you not to ask too many questions hearing. Mister Honell. Officer Cleary. Who are those men with you? Hey, I've got something to show you. Mister Honell. You'd better brace yourself. It's not going to be pleasant. All right, bring it in, boys. You can put it over there. What? What is it? It's a body a woman just fished out of the river right near here. She can't be dead more than 24 hours. My wife? Hard to say. You see, the body got caught in the propeller of a boat, and it's not easy to recognize it unless it was examined by someone who knew her very well. Like yourself, of course. Let me see it. Take away the burlap. Look, Miss Darnell, I know it's pretty bad. His. Is it your wife? Agnes? Yes. Yes, of course. It's. It's her. You're sure now? Yes, I I'm sure. Positive. All right, boys, take it away. You can stay here, mister. Honey. I'll take care of everything down at headquarters. Good night. Good night, Cleary. Luck, fate, whatever it is that seemed to control men's lives, was playing directly into my hands. They'd never investigate. Now the nightmare was over. This time I was really free. Suddenly, the panel door opened. Dorothy was standing there, a curious smile on her lips. [00:24:19] Speaker G: I heard everything, kiddo. [00:24:22] Speaker C: You did? [00:24:24] Speaker G: So you were married. [00:24:25] Speaker B: No longer. [00:24:26] Speaker C: Dorothy, my wife, died suicide. [00:24:29] Speaker G: So I heard. [00:24:30] Speaker C: Now everything will be quite all right, and we can get married in a few weeks. We'll have money, lots of money. [00:24:35] Speaker G: She left you plenty, eh? [00:24:37] Speaker C: She was very wealthy. [00:24:40] Speaker G: What's the matter? [00:24:42] Speaker C: Nothing. [00:24:43] Speaker G: Nothing. I see what happens to your face when you hear that whale. Did you kill her? [00:24:50] Speaker C: What are you talking about? [00:24:51] Speaker G: Did you murder her? [00:24:52] Speaker C: You heard what he said. She was found in the river. [00:24:54] Speaker G: You can fool a dumb copper, but you can't fool Dorothy. That whale. It's queer. Awful queer. Look at what that cat's doing, will ya? Jumping up on that wall like it's gone crazy. Yes, there's something about that wall. That's what the cats do. Trying to tell me something about the wall? [00:25:13] Speaker C: You better stay away from that Oliver. [00:25:15] Speaker G: I'm going to find out. Yeah. [00:25:16] Speaker C: Put that bookend down. [00:25:17] Speaker G: Not till I'm done with it, kiddo. [00:25:19] Speaker C: What are you doing there? [00:25:20] Speaker G: I'm going to break it through that wall. [00:25:22] Speaker C: You crazy fool. Stop it. [00:25:23] Speaker G: No. [00:25:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:25] Speaker G: Give me that trick. You're too late, Gabe. I've broken a hole through, and I'm going to look. [00:25:31] Speaker C: Now you've seen. [00:25:34] Speaker G: Yes. Is it the hand the hand of a woman. It's. It's her. Your wife? [00:25:43] Speaker C: Yes. Dorothy. [00:25:45] Speaker G: You murdered her. [00:25:45] Speaker C: Yes. [00:25:46] Speaker G: Well, ain't you the king? [00:25:48] Speaker C: What are you going to do about it? [00:25:49] Speaker G: What do you think? I want money. Lots of that. That rope? [00:25:57] Speaker C: Yes, this rope. It leaves no telltale traces. [00:26:02] Speaker G: Oh, no, kidd. Didn't you get it? It was all a joke. No, don't come any closer. [00:26:07] Speaker C: Don't scream, Dorothy. It won't do you any good. [00:26:09] Speaker G: Gabe, listen to me. I don't want a cent, not one penny. I love you. I love you. I tell you, I'll keep you a secret. I'll do anything you want. Anything. Then that rope. Take it away from my neck. Don't give. In the name of heaven, don't. Don't blame. [00:26:31] Speaker C: She was me dead. I took her body, put it in an old trunk in the storeroom of the cellar. I had to think of some plan, some way to get rid of those bodies. In my confusion, there was only one thing that I was certain of. I must never leave the house. Not even for a minute. I never did. At nights I would sit there listening. Then it would come. The whale in the wall. I knew that after a week she couldn't be alive. What made the whale plans? I thought of a thousand plans, but all of them would mean that I had to leave the house. And if I left, someone would hear the whale and find out, just as Dorothy did. Fire. Yes, fire. That would do it. The idea danced like a flame in my. The mind. But no. No. They discovered charred bones of the skeletons among wreckage. No, it. It wouldn't be worth it. The only way I could be safe was to stay there in the house I stayed. I, who had risked everything for freedom. One day the doorbell tinkled. I opened it. Mister Harnell? Yes. I'm Mister Crawford from the bank. May I come in? Just in here in the vestibule. We've written to you a dozen times, but you've never replied. What do you want? Well, Mister Hornell, you may not realize it, but you've overdrawn your account. The money your wife left is gone. Gone. So short a time. So short. Why, she died 40 years ago. 40? It seems only yesterday. We've been investigating. Even the grocer who used to supply your food no longer will extend your crime. What do you want with me? I'm not starving. If you'd see your face, you'd realize that you are Mister Hornell. Now, if you'll only be reasonable, we can see to it that you get $250,000 a quarter of a million? How? By selling this house. It's become very valuable. No. You get out of here. Get out. But Mister Hornell. Get out. [00:29:09] Speaker B: Very well. [00:29:12] Speaker C: He was right. I was starving that night. When I heard the wailing begin again. I came to a decision. Aye. I had spent 40 years in the house. More punishment than criminals receive. Who've committed even worse crimes than mine. I'd take a chance. I opened the wall I'd sealed up 40 years ago. She. She was still there. But the wailing continued. Why? Why? I looked into the tomb I made for her. And then I saw it. I saw this thing that had ruined my life. It was a tiny hole in the outside wall that I'd made when I first broke it open. The wind rushed through and made that horrible wail. What was the use? I took a match out of my pocket. I said its flame to the curtains. In a moment the place would be an inferno. But I decided to stay. I wanted to perish with the house in death. [00:30:16] Speaker G: At least I be free. [00:30:29] Speaker C: But even then freedom was denied. They rescued me. Brought me to this hospital. I had the nurse make inquiries from the police. She told me no. [00:30:42] Speaker G: There was nothing unusual found among the ashes. Everything was burned to a fine powder. [00:30:48] Speaker C: If. If I had only set fire to the house 40 years ago. But no matter. The window is open and it's 18 stories to the ground. I will soon be free. Meow. [00:31:24] Speaker B: Everybody's dead but the cats. And we overlooked him because we couldn't find him. [00:31:29] Speaker C: Of course. [00:31:30] Speaker B: I'm sorry that that wall made such an unpleasant noise. Such a tuneless wailing. We tried to teach it to whistle the new Lipton t jingle. But we didn't have time. Eh, Mary? [00:31:41] Speaker G: Now you just stopped teasing me. Because I'm not going to talk about the Lipton jingle. No. No. And I'm not going to talk about Lipton tea either. Instead, the Lipton people want me to remind you folks about something important. I mean the victory loan drive. You know. Friends. We've been buying bonds for many years now. But this drive is in some ways the most important. Because if a job is worth doing, then it's worth finishing. The bonds you buy now won't buy weapons. No. This time the money will help bring our boys home. It will also help take care of our wounded soldiers. Provide them with the finest medical care in the world. And friends, we can certainly do no less. And the victory bonds you buy now will help launch our veterans into a safe and secure post war world. The kind of world they've been fighting for. Yes, you're helping others, and yourself, too, every time you buy a victory bond. So buy all you can, won't you? [00:32:43] Speaker B: All right, friends, until we meet at some haunted house, here's a parting thought. Don't seal your wife in a wall that won't keep her quiet. Oh, by the way, this month's inner sanctum mystery novel is devil in the Bush by Matthew Head. Yes, and next week's inner sanctum story, directed by Hyman Brown and brought to you by Lipton tea and Lipton soup. Next week's story is about a man who gets hunches. His hunches are about death. He's sure he's going to be killed. Not by poison, a fire, or strangling. Nothing simple like that. No, our character has a nice, interesting death waiting for him. Oh, if you'd like to be in at the death drop in next Tuesday. And now it's time to close the squeaking door. So, good night. Pleasant dream. [00:33:53] Speaker G: Folks. The colder it gets, the more we all enjoy a good, hot plate of soup. And for soup with a fresh, home cooked taste, you can't beat Lipton's noodle soup. Yes, Lipton's is blessed with a real chickeny flavor, and it's just swimming with tender golden egg noodles. But listen, Lipton noodle soup takes almost no time at all to prepare. And Lipton's is economical, too. Costs less and makes lots more than canned soups. So don't forget to try Lipton's noodle soup. And don't forget to tune in next Tuesday night for another inner sanctum mystery. [00:34:33] Speaker B: This is CB's, the Columbia broadcasting System. [00:34:49] Speaker D: That was the wailing wall from inner sanctum here on the mysterious old radio listening society podcast. Once again, I'm Eric. [00:34:57] Speaker F: I'm Tim. [00:34:58] Speaker A: I'm Joshua. [00:34:59] Speaker E: And I'm Shannon. [00:35:01] Speaker D: Joshua. You brought that this week for our podcast. Why did you bring us the humming wall? [00:35:08] Speaker E: Oh, the wailing wall. [00:35:09] Speaker D: Wailing wall. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Although humming wall would be much better. Yes, it's a lot cheerier than the story turned out to be. No, for our live podcast, I wanted to do an episode that was a lot of fun. And I love inner sanctum, and I love the host and Lipton tea lady. And I thought they had some quality exchanges in this episode. And then you add the layer of Boris Karloff onto this, and just the frantic twist, heavy pace. And the most important thing to me is that the cat lives. [00:35:49] Speaker D: Right? [00:35:50] Speaker A: The animals always die in old time radio. So as soon as the cat lived, I'm like, love this episode. [00:35:58] Speaker D: For those that are listeners, regular listening, the podcast, the term get to the castle comes from that Vincent Price episode where they killed the cat. [00:36:06] Speaker F: And if you are not regularly a listener of old radio, come on down and listen to a bunch of animals die. [00:36:12] Speaker D: Yeah, right. Hey, also, if you're listening to this, we are live, this podcast from the Bryant Lake bowl in Minneapolis and our very. Yeah, and we just sat in the dark with a bunch of strangers and listened to that. [00:36:28] Speaker A: Everybody checked your wallet. [00:36:31] Speaker D: And our special guest is Miss Shannon Custer. [00:36:33] Speaker E: Yes. We were talking about how we would start the episode and then just leave. And I think you'd probably be fine with that. You'd just be like, perfect, I'll take a nap, order some nachos. [00:36:46] Speaker D: The cat, really great job. Outstanding. But seriously, sometimes they have to make a choice, right? Is someone going to impersonate a cat or are we going to, you know, use squeeze a live cat, squeeze a live cat or record sound effects? That had to have been a pre recorded cat song because it was. If that was a person making those cat noise, that's the best cat impression I've ever heard in my life. That was dead on. [00:37:14] Speaker A: There were professionals in radio who just did animal sounds, but not like that. [00:37:18] Speaker D: I mean, that Paul freeze wasn't even that good. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Professionals. That was all they did. [00:37:24] Speaker E: His parrot is so good. Paul Friesey's parrot. [00:37:28] Speaker D: Imagine trying to explain that to your parents. What do you do? Animal noises? [00:37:35] Speaker F: I mean, I think one of those professionals might have been three cats in a trench coat. We have so much cat food with this. [00:37:46] Speaker A: I really enjoyed Mister hosts meow at the end because it started with this level of commitment and then just petered out. [00:37:54] Speaker E: He's like. [00:37:57] Speaker D: Right, let's start with Mister Olsen, the Lipton tea lady, if that. How many of you here live? That was the first time you heard those two together? [00:38:06] Speaker E: Oh yeah, yeah. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Well, you're welcome. Yeah. [00:38:10] Speaker D: Welcome to the weirdest thing in old time radio. There's more episodes. It gets weirder and weirder. It occurred to me during listening that by the way, quickly. I think I'm the only one. I discovered right before we came on that did this the regular way for podcast recording. Meaning I didn't listen to this until just now on the stage. I think the rest of you all. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Yes, the rest of us did work, Eric. Exactly. [00:38:38] Speaker E: I guess we call that yourself. [00:38:40] Speaker A: Like that. [00:38:41] Speaker F: If we did it that way. Stop, restart. I missed something. [00:38:45] Speaker D: Yeah, so I probably missed a lot of stuff. That's like your second or third time. But this is Siri Lipton, tea lady. It occurred to me how much she sounds like Mercedes McCambridge. No. Yeah. [00:38:59] Speaker C: Anybody? [00:39:00] Speaker D: Okay, moving on. [00:39:00] Speaker A: You should listen to these episodes ahead. [00:39:02] Speaker D: Of time, Eric, don't you think she sounds a little. [00:39:05] Speaker A: She has a little of that quality? [00:39:06] Speaker D: Yeah, sure. It wasn't anything worth bringing up, I. [00:39:09] Speaker A: Guess I'm gonna save you, Eric. One of the things I liked about this is it's a later episode in the host and Mary series. [00:39:18] Speaker F: Their arc. [00:39:19] Speaker A: Yes, in their arc, because Mary laughs at his jokes a lot more than in the earlier episodes, which I think is a clear sign of Stockholm syndrome at this point. [00:39:32] Speaker F: I got the vibe, like, funny. [00:39:36] Speaker E: Yeah. There was always an edge in the earlier ones. [00:39:39] Speaker A: There's a moment when he says, oh, I almost shivered in my shroud. And she's like, what? [00:39:48] Speaker E: Hilarious. There's a war. [00:39:55] Speaker D: We talked before the show tonight about how this inner sanctum is pretty straightforward. For inner sanctum, it's not as weird and wacky and out there as inner sanctum can get. This is guy kills Dwight, throws her in a wall. So that's what I got. Moving on the wall hums I will. Oh, I was waiting for wailing, and it was humming that. [00:40:23] Speaker F: I think it was specifically that to be a little. Not to poe. [00:40:27] Speaker A: Yes, there's the telltale heart is in here and the black cat. Very obviously the black cat. But one of the things that's fun is it's the telltale heart. If everybody could hear the heart. [00:40:39] Speaker D: Right? Right. [00:40:41] Speaker E: Yeah. And if it just was like a bad brick laying job that caused the sound of a heart. I don't know. [00:40:50] Speaker F: I like everyone shows up the night you kill your wife. [00:40:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:53] Speaker C: Ah. [00:40:57] Speaker A: I love. Now, this is. It's not widely known, but police officers can enter your home or look in your window if they have a search warrant or are just a little chilly. It's in the fourth amendment. James Madison just scrawled it in the margins. [00:41:15] Speaker E: And I think, too, that they could just bring the dead body into your house. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Fresh from the water. [00:41:23] Speaker E: Is this yours? And then you either say yay or nay, and then they're like, thank you, case closed. [00:41:33] Speaker A: Did you chip your wife? Because we can identify her that way. [00:41:38] Speaker E: I just, the whole time I was like, did they just don't put her on the couch? Like, what are you. Where did they put her? Like, what is happening? [00:41:46] Speaker A: She's dripping on the rug and there's propeller bits falling out. And. [00:41:55] Speaker D: Yeah, I love that process. [00:41:56] Speaker A: It's just a disconnected body. Apparently, this river is a very popular dumping ground. And they. You just. There's a beaver family that's made a dam out of murdered spouses in this river. [00:42:09] Speaker F: At a certain point, they started referring to the body as it, like. So you want to look at it, right. [00:42:14] Speaker G: Well. [00:42:14] Speaker E: And I just think, what are they standing by the river? And then they're like, wait a minute. There's a guy, right, I just talked to, who said he lost his wife. This has got to be it. [00:42:23] Speaker F: He's got a gurney in his living room. [00:42:28] Speaker D: Let's just bring it around the neighborhood. Ring doorbells. [00:42:31] Speaker E: Yeah, that was, like, the 7th house they went to. People were like, no, that wasn't me. I didn't call about the dead body check. [00:42:39] Speaker D: What was his name, by the way? I wasn't picking it up, officer. No, not that guy's name. Carlos. [00:42:45] Speaker F: Not Hormel. [00:42:46] Speaker E: Not Hormel. [00:42:47] Speaker D: But his first name, though. [00:42:48] Speaker A: Gabriel. [00:42:49] Speaker D: Gabriel. Thank you. Gabriel Hormel. [00:42:52] Speaker A: Hornell. [00:42:53] Speaker D: Hornell. [00:42:53] Speaker E: Hornell. [00:42:54] Speaker A: See, these are the exciting things you would have discovered had you listened to the episode earlier. [00:42:58] Speaker D: So how did this end? I wasn't paying any attention. [00:43:03] Speaker F: I wanted to say that bringing the body around was the second most unbelievable part of this. For me, the most unbelievable part was when he said, and I'll just put up wallpaper to match the rest of the house. And that's easy. [00:43:15] Speaker E: Yeah, right? [00:43:18] Speaker D: Like, that guy has never done wallpaper before. [00:43:21] Speaker E: Or my favorite. She's like, we'll get a divorce. And he was like, too difficult. I'm gonna strangle you. Put you in this wall, then rebuild it. See, that's easier than signing a bunch of papers. And I just. [00:43:40] Speaker C: Did. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Anyone else imagine the. [00:43:42] Speaker D: I'm just so happy we don't do wallpaper anymore. Such a pain. Sorry, what were you saying? [00:43:47] Speaker A: Did you imagine the hole as this? Just perfect wife shaped hole? Like when wile E. Coyote goes through a wall. Or the Kool Aid guy, and he's just the Kool Aid guy. It's shaped like your wife and you. [00:44:02] Speaker E: He just puts a plant in front of it. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Or he just has to stand there. [00:44:07] Speaker E: People come home and they're like, didn't want to get the divorce, huh? [00:44:12] Speaker F: Just hangs a full sized picture of his wife in front of it. [00:44:19] Speaker D: Right? Don't, uh. Who was the woman at the end? Just a friend that came in. [00:44:24] Speaker C: That. [00:44:24] Speaker D: The other woman. [00:44:25] Speaker A: You really didn't. [00:44:26] Speaker E: You really didn't listen. [00:44:28] Speaker G: No. That's who. [00:44:29] Speaker E: He was having an affair. [00:44:30] Speaker D: That's what I thought. [00:44:31] Speaker E: Oh, shit. [00:44:32] Speaker D: I caught that. [00:44:33] Speaker A: She's an actress. So. [00:44:35] Speaker E: Right. They're naturally tramping. [00:44:39] Speaker D: I'll be honest, I get really wrapped up in just the lull of Karloff's voice. Right. I just. It's so beautiful. I could listen to him do anything, you know? And it's just so wonderfully. Yeah, well, he does so good. [00:44:55] Speaker A: He totally understands the material. [00:44:58] Speaker D: Right, right. [00:44:58] Speaker A: He knows that this is just melodramatic and you need to be just earnest enough, but also be willing to embrace the absurdity of it. It's that old saying, from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step and he's just hopping back and forth, back and forth. [00:45:16] Speaker D: So good. It's so effortless from him. And it is hard, especially in this one. Not always in old time radio, but in this one in particular. That step over to the grinch now and then. Right. Like every now and then you're like, his heart grew three times. But it is just. I can listen and read the phone book. Right. It's just so beautiful and so well done. And radioacting is so difficult to convey the. All of those things. And if you can picture. That's. If you can picture the performance, that's a sign of great radioactive. And you can picture everything with that guy. He's so good. [00:45:56] Speaker A: He carries this. It is really absurd, but he invests so much energy and so much of himself in it that you can't help but kind of like him, even though he's a monster. [00:46:08] Speaker D: Right. [00:46:09] Speaker E: Although I do want to bring up the idea of just how women just had nerves. Like, that was something that made them very, like, it's been. It's very storied. Like, misses Bennet had nerves, you know, my nerves, you know, there were just so many. And that was basically an sorry wrong number. We don't really know what's wrong with her. Yellow. I'm just really nervous. And it made her horrifying. And so on some levels, we're supposed to be like, yeah, that makes sense. His wife had nerves. [00:46:43] Speaker A: It's that classic old time radio trope of the hectoring hypochondriac wife who won't give her husband five minutes apiece to plan her murder. [00:46:54] Speaker D: Right? [00:46:55] Speaker A: Come on. [00:46:55] Speaker D: It's the harpy thing, you know, like, we were supposed to justify it in our heads. There's not a lot of time in 30 minutes to set up where you believe or understand why this horrible act is being committed. So you can either agree or disagree or sympathize or empathize. Right? [00:47:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:14] Speaker F: Who all here agrees she had it coming? No one no one. [00:47:21] Speaker D: But the point being is that you don't have time for the setup of this to find out why he's reacting. [00:47:27] Speaker E: Oh, all right, then he's on. [00:47:28] Speaker D: So all it is is her yelling down the stairs. [00:47:31] Speaker A: I'm gonna just go on a limb and say he's a psychopath. [00:47:36] Speaker E: But that was my point too, is it shows just how incredible Boris Karloff was as an actor because we get just. She basically is like, I'm nervous. Why are you hammering? And he's like, and this is it. It was just an immediate. [00:47:51] Speaker A: And you, what do you think, woman? No divorce. Get in the hole. [00:47:56] Speaker E: But you really believe it. And so, yeah, it's pretty. Cause it's fast, you know? [00:48:00] Speaker F: But you do get to see an array of attempts to talk him out of strangle. Like, no, not a divorce. I love you. Like, nah, that's the same thing as a divorce. That's a lot of work. [00:48:11] Speaker A: Sounds like you just love not being strangled. [00:48:16] Speaker E: Oh, God. But I do love, too, that he has. He's like, I've suffered a lot. I've been of in the house for 40 years. [00:48:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:27] Speaker E: Like, he actually lets himself off the hook morally. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:31] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:48:32] Speaker A: I've had to sit in my house peacefully for 40 years. [00:48:35] Speaker E: 40 years having groceries brought to me. [00:48:37] Speaker F: The big inner sanctum twist of this one that makes me afraid in that way of like, oh, that's so weird and strange. And that someone's coming to my door with that news here pretty soon. [00:48:50] Speaker D: That's how COVID felt. [00:48:53] Speaker F: We were talking downstairs about, you know, when we started doing shows at the Brant Lake bowl 40 years ago. [00:48:59] Speaker A: You're out of money and you're starving to death, Tim. [00:49:02] Speaker E: No, I feel fine. You should see yourself. [00:49:06] Speaker F: This hurts. [00:49:07] Speaker E: Oh, God. [00:49:12] Speaker A: I don't know if it was for the sensors or just a timing choice, but particularly with Dorothy, she was strangled very quickly, very quick. She must have had a rope allergy or some kind of anaphylactic shock that she went into or a really tiny neck, something, because it was just like, no, don't. [00:49:33] Speaker E: I want money. See, she just died. Yeah, that was very quick. [00:49:37] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, I do. This is going to. I'm sorry for everyone who has to go through what I'm about to say. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Buckle up. [00:49:48] Speaker F: I did at one point hear the fact of like, you need three minutes of air, three days of water, three weeks of food. You can go without air for three minutes, roughly, without water for three days. So when he was talking about like, no, she must be dead by now. Like, nah, she'd be fine. She's still got a couple days in her. [00:50:06] Speaker A: Somebody should go look at Tim's basement. [00:50:10] Speaker E: Really? [00:50:11] Speaker A: Check it out. [00:50:11] Speaker D: I've been there. You won't get past the wall of comic books. [00:50:16] Speaker E: I just love that. It's like a list. Like, you have it just to check every day. [00:50:22] Speaker A: I think in terms of if I'm. [00:50:23] Speaker F: On a desert island, first water. [00:50:26] Speaker A: Well, first air. [00:50:27] Speaker E: Sure. [00:50:28] Speaker F: Gotta get some air. I've wandered off topic. [00:50:33] Speaker E: No, that's good. That's good safety tips. [00:50:37] Speaker D: I have some others I'm not gonna go into. [00:50:40] Speaker A: And one of the other reasons I chose this particular episode is not every single episode does Mary get a chance to extend her advertising prowess to chicken noodle soup, which I just love. I love that. [00:50:54] Speaker E: That's the best one. [00:50:55] Speaker A: Chickeny. [00:50:56] Speaker E: It is chickeny tasting and smells chickeny. [00:51:00] Speaker A: Smells chickeny. They also say it is swimming with noodles. Now, I just. That's not a verb I want associated with soup swimming. It's like it's infectious with flavor, contaminated with nutrients. [00:51:17] Speaker E: But did she truly almost says it's almost like soup. You know, I mean, she is about 3 seconds away from that. And then they're just like, that'll do. You know, you get the idea that. [00:51:30] Speaker A: They just, like, eat the entire can, and then, like an owl, they spit the can out afterwards. [00:51:36] Speaker D: You don't want your food attached to some kind of movement, as its description. [00:51:40] Speaker A: No, there should be no choreography in the kitchen. [00:51:44] Speaker D: Your cow will be walking with flavor. That was terrible. [00:51:49] Speaker E: But it is so interesting. I think the tonal shift with the host and the. And yet it worked. I mean, do you think that it was. You would know more, historically speaking, does that just make it more palatable for, like, families? Although that I would never want my. [00:52:05] Speaker F: I have to imagine this was just week after week of, like, no one's stopping us. [00:52:10] Speaker E: Okay. Now that I can relate to, Lipton isn't stopping to me. [00:52:16] Speaker D: In my head. They got a sponsor. The sponsor got in control, gave them the Lipton. You know, I've been in a situation where your product is being decided and formatted by, you know, money. And so you're gonna have this woman, the Lipton tea lady, all of this. And it seems like two people or writers and a room full of people making the best of a terrible situation. Right? Like, we have what? We have this woman. How is this going to work? Which explains the crazy segues, right? Like, the slam on the brakes. Go 90 degrees and into soup talk, like, so fast. It's so fast. But to me, it really does resonate of let's force these square pegs into round holes and figure this out and figure out how to work together because it really isn't a nice easy mesh, but. [00:53:11] Speaker A: But it does really tell you, as the listener, how to consume the show like this. [00:53:18] Speaker D: Sure. [00:53:18] Speaker A: This is very arch. It's hot. [00:53:21] Speaker D: I would argue Mister hosted that without the Lipton tea lady. [00:53:24] Speaker A: Well, you now, you can't be fooled at all. You're not going to miss it. It is not subtle and it's just, it's extra layer of comedy to it. Yeah, fun, right? [00:53:32] Speaker D: I just. I just imagine them sitting there and they told, you have me to fit this in somehow. It's a lot like the spark plug guys from suspense. Autolyte, right? As a nightmare. Joshua hates the Autolyte guy. [00:53:49] Speaker A: And then when they bring in Johnny. [00:53:51] Speaker E: Plug, check, check your spark plugs, too. Yeah, but I think you're right, though, that it does set that tone that it should be fun because. Yeah, that as horrifying as they can be, it still should be fun. [00:54:07] Speaker D: Yeah, right? [00:54:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:08] Speaker A: Because otherwise this is just a story about a man ruthlessly murdering women. And what's fun about that? [00:54:15] Speaker E: Well, that's pretty much everything. [00:54:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a lot of old time radio. And then. And then he's like, he's begging you to sympathize with him. Yeah, like, what do I have to do? How many women do I have to murder to get the voices of all these murdered women out of my head? Maybe none, right? [00:54:34] Speaker E: And then he's like, they saved me, you know? So he gets really good healthcare, too, on top of it. [00:54:41] Speaker A: And that's a typical excessive inner sanctum thing. It's like, let's open with a fire and he's gonna die. No, we saved him. Never mind. He jumped out the hospital window. There's like, you could just start with jumping out the hospital window to really. [00:54:55] Speaker D: Tall hospital, by the way. [00:54:57] Speaker F: Yeah, I mean, he might have survived. [00:55:00] Speaker E: Yeah, well, they check your list, Tim. Would he survive if he drank water on the way down? [00:55:07] Speaker F: Three minutes? [00:55:15] Speaker A: Someone on the other line, when the nurse makes that call, does ask that question. Are you sure he's. Sure he's dead? I'm pretty sure he's not alive. [00:55:25] Speaker G: I know. [00:55:25] Speaker E: She's like, the cops are taking him. [00:55:27] Speaker F: House to house right now. [00:55:30] Speaker D: Beat me to it. About 20 people in the neighborhood agreed. [00:55:36] Speaker A: He fell right on a boat propeller. What are the odds? All right, guys, so let's. If you're new to the podcast, we customarily end our podcast with a vote on whether we deem this episode to be a classic, whether it stands the test of time or it's something that is never worth revisiting. And often we just come up with other categories to vote to. Those are standard ones. So I think we're ready to vote here. [00:56:11] Speaker D: Sure. I'll start the voting on this one. It's great. It's a very good episode. Boris Karloff's fantastic in this. I think for a very simple concept, which it is. It's not to bizarre out there or trust me, it wasn't difficult to follow, regardless of some things that may have said. But I think that as far as Stanza's test of time. Yes. Is it a classic? No, it isn't. It isn't storytelling wise, great. I think the production values are great. I think director, obviously, act is. Was phenomenal. So stands the test of time and very, very good. I will say this. Inner sanctum is wacky, right. And a lot of them, you know, I just try to go along for the ride and sometimes, oh, God, you're just so wacky. This is one of my top three or four of inner sanctums. I would say I really enjoyed it, but I. That could also be because I love Karloff way too much. So that's my vote. [00:57:11] Speaker A: So to me, this is a inner sanctum classic. And it may speak to how low inner sanctum puts the bar for themselves. But if I was going to try to hook somebody on inner sanctum and really tell them, like, this is quintessentially inner sanctum at its best, I would play this for them, and if they hated it, then I would say, don't even try to listen to another inner sanctum. So to me, it's got everything. Boris Karloff, cats who live, the host, and Mary. I just love it to death. I love it to death. [00:57:55] Speaker F: I think it stands the test of time. I think once we get a vault, we should check with the audience to see their votes. But I think in general, it was a positive reaction. I love inner sanctum more and more every day. So this is nowhere near my favorite of them, because I love. I love them. I love them. I love them. I love anything. [00:58:14] Speaker A: It's like Sophie's choice over here, all his children. [00:58:17] Speaker F: But this is amazing in, it's 18 different plates of ice cream in one bowl. And it's delicious because it's the Boris Karloff, it's the host, Mary Edgar Allan Poe. All these different kinds of stories just mashed into one. And it's pretty simple. Straightforward and satisfying. [00:58:36] Speaker D: Ferals used to call that the zoo. 18 flavors of ice cream in one bowl. And they. Yeah. And they run it out on a. On a gurney with sirens. Me and one person. [00:58:49] Speaker F: You said ferals. [00:58:50] Speaker D: And I thought it was like the. [00:58:51] Speaker F: Slang for, like, you know, the people who go wild and live in the woods. Ferals, they love that kind of dish. [00:58:59] Speaker D: Their. God, Nell. I just made a Nell reference. [00:59:04] Speaker C: Wow. [00:59:06] Speaker E: Yes. I think it's classic. You know, what do I know? I think it's great. I mean, it is. [00:59:13] Speaker G: It's. [00:59:13] Speaker E: For all the reasons said Boris Karloff. There's drowning, propellers, fire, home repair. It's incredible. I love that it has the host and Lipton tea lady. I loved it. So, yes. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Oh, one nerdy thing that you made me think of. Not that you're a nerd, but I know. [00:59:33] Speaker E: It's like just looking at it as he stared at me. [00:59:35] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:36] Speaker F: Give me your lunch money. [00:59:37] Speaker A: I wondered if naming her Agnes was some homage. [00:59:41] Speaker E: I'm sorry, wrong number. [00:59:42] Speaker A: Because she is Misses Stevenson from sorry, wrong number. And that was their shortcut into telling you what kind of character this is. [00:59:50] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:59:50] Speaker A: So. [00:59:52] Speaker F: So quick check just by applause. People think like, classic. Really enjoyed it, and nobody's feelings to be hurt. Did not enjoy it. [01:00:05] Speaker C: Awesome. [01:00:06] Speaker F: I love your taste. My feelings would have been totally hurt. [01:00:09] Speaker E: Those folks have left. They're just like. [01:00:12] Speaker A: I did hear one awkward cough when you asked that question. [01:00:18] Speaker D: All right, Tim, tell them stuff. [01:00:20] Speaker F: Hey, everyone listening in the future and here with me now, if you have a chance, go visit ghoulishdelights.com, comma. That is the home of this podcast where it is hosted. You'll find other episodes there. Hundreds of episodes. It's jaw dropping. You'll be able to comment episodes, vote in polls. Let us know what you think about these in your own words, not just clapping. And you will also find links to our social media stuff and to our store, if you can buy some swag. Cause people love swag. And you will find a link to our Patreon page. [01:00:51] Speaker C: Yes. [01:00:51] Speaker A: Go to patreon.com, the morals. And you too can become a member of the mysterious old radio listening Society. It's gonna cost you, though. Yay. But, you know, everything of worth in life costs something, right? But if you become a patron, you get access to a lot of our bonus podcasts. Not a lot. All of them. There are a lot on the site. We have monthly zoom happy hours where we get together with listeners and patrons from around the world sometimes. We've had some people from New Zealand. Stay up till the middle of the night to yell at us and tell us to do it earlier. So please, the Patreon is what pays us, what supports everything supports this show, in addition to you kindly buying tickets. So, yes, consider becoming a patron of the podcast. [01:01:46] Speaker D: The mysterious old radio listening Society is also a theater company. We perform recreations of classic old time radio shows and a lot of our own original work live on stage somewhere monthly, sometimes more than once a month. You can find out what we're performing, when we're performing, and where we're performing by going to ghoulishdelights.com. And you'll see all that information, plus how to get tickets. And as Joshua was just talking about being a patreon, we do film them. And that is part of your Patreon perk. You get to watch those so you don't have to buy a ticket. [01:02:18] Speaker A: But you should tell them that because. [01:02:22] Speaker D: You know, you can get dinner and stuff and get out of your house after 40 years. [01:02:29] Speaker A: You guys should really look at yourself. [01:02:35] Speaker D: What is coming up next? [01:02:37] Speaker A: Next, I didn't really prepare for this. So what we're gonna do next time, we are going to listen to an episode that absolutely scarred me as a child. We'll be listening to an episode of the shadow called Death from the Deep. Until then. [01:03:06] Speaker B: Good evening, friends of the inner sanctum. This is your host to welcome you through the squeaking door into the land of ghosts, vampires, and other gay, hilarious people. [01:03:20] Speaker G: That's very funny. Very funny. All about Lipton's brisk flavor. How Lipton's always tastes fresh, full body. Never wishy washy. Never wishy washy. Never wishy washy. Wishy washy. Wishy washy. [01:03:41] Speaker C: No. [01:03:41] Speaker G: Yes. [01:03:42] Speaker C: No. [01:03:43] Speaker G: Yes. [01:03:43] Speaker D: No. [01:03:44] Speaker G: Yes. [01:03:45] Speaker C: No. [01:03:45] Speaker G: Yes. [01:03:46] Speaker B: Was so scared I shivered in my shroud. [01:03:52] Speaker G: And folks, if you want a sunny disposition, you should try relaxing with a cup of Lipton tea after a hard job like. Or maybe washing out your window curtains. Washing out your window curtains. Window curtains. Window curtains. Window curtains. And the victory bond you buy now will help launch our veterans into a safe and secure post war world. The kind of world they've been fighting for. [01:04:27] Speaker C: No. [01:04:27] Speaker G: Yes. Yes. Lipton's is blessed with a real chickeny flavor. Chicken they flavor chicken they flavor chicken they flavor chicken they flavor never wishy washy chicken they flavor chicken they flavor chicken a flavor maybe washing out your window curtains the kind of world they've been fighting for was so scared I shivered in my shroud. And don't forget to tune in next Tuesday night for another inner sanctum mystery. [01:05:15] Speaker B: Good night, pleasant tree.